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It's been about a year since Cerner Corp. appointed Zane Burke as president. And what a year it's been. The health information technology company, which is based in North Kansas City, made its biggest acquisition ever with the purchase of Siemens Health Services for $1.3 billion in cash.

EHR giant Cerner is now one step closer to completing its pending acquisition of Siemens Health Services, after the Federal Trade Commission gave the go ahead to an early termination of the deal's waiting period under antitrust laws. ...
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Cerner announced
today the U.S. Federal Trade Commission granted early termination of the
waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976, as amended, in connection with the company’s purchase of the assets of
Siemens' health information technology business unit, Siemens Health Services,
for $1.3 billion in cash. The early termination of the HSR waiting period
satisfies one of the conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition. The
transaction remains subject to other customary closing conditions and is still expected
to close in the first quarter of 2015.

The two companies plan a “strategic alliance” around medical
devices, imaging and health-care technology, they said yesterday in a
statement. The purchase is expected to add more than 15 cents to earnings per
share in 2015, Kansas City-based Cerner said.

Health technology and electronic health records powerhouse Cerner Corp. is spending $1.3 billion to purchase Siemens Health Services, the health information technology business of Germany's Siemens AG, Cerner announced Tuesday. The newly combined company will have $4.5 billion in annual revenue and will invest $650 million annually in research and development, Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner said. Its client base will include 18,000 facilities in the
U.S. and Germany.